A wink and a nod: A conceptual map of responsibility and accountability in bureaucratic organizations

Canadian Public Administration

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-25

  Schafer, Arthur ^a  

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EID: 0040142003     PISSN: 00084840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-7121.1999.tb01545.x     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. n.a., "A return to ministerial responsibility" (editorial), The Globe and Mail (Toronto edition) 22 August 1996, p. A18.
2. When General Boyle's uses the term "moral fibre" in his testimony before the commission he appears to mean something like "the courage to be honest." But the concept of moral fibre, as used by the military in both world wars, seems more typically to have been employed to refer to a particular military virtue, that is, an especially high level of courage and stamina in the performance of one's duties.
3. See J.T. Stevenson, Engineering Ethics: Practices and Principles (Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1987), pp. 69-75, for a fuller elaboration of "responsibility systems."
4. J.T. Stevenson, private communication with the author.
5. For an unwitting example of such muddle, see Jeffrey Simpson, "How can there be accountability without responsibility?" The Globe and Mail (Toronto edition) 8 January, 1997, p. A12.
6. Max Weber, "Bureaucracy," in From Max Weber (New York: Oxford University Press, 1958), pp. 196-7; 232-3.
7. Monique Begin cited in n.a., "A return to ministerial responsibility," Globe.
8. H.L.A. Hart, Punishment and Responsibility (London: Oxford University Press, 1968), p. 152.
9. Ibid., pp. 136-57.
10. Testimony before the Somalia Commission, Vol. 87, Tuesday, 13 August 1996, p. 17037.
11. See Peter A. French, ed., Individual and Collective Responsibility (Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman, 1972). See also Dennis F. Thompson, Political Ethics and Public Office (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987), especially, see Chapter 2, "The moral responsibility of many hands."
12. See Peter A. French, ed., Individual and Collective Responsibility (Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman, 1972). See also Dennis F. Thompson, Political Ethics and Public Office (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987), especially, see Chapter 2, "The moral responsibility of many hands."
13. Testimony, p. 17452.
14. Ibid.
15. n.a., "Culture of coverup" (editorial), The Ottawa Citizen, 15 August 1966, p. A10.
16. Testimony, p. 17481.
17. Ibid., (emphasis added).
18. Ibid., p. 17452.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid., p. 17037.
21. Jean Anouilh, Becket. Translated by Lucienne Hill (London: Methuen, 1961), p. 110.